Promoting cooperation by punishing minority

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Highlights：

• A new mechanism of punishment is proposed in the spatial public goods game.

• Individuals with the majority strategy will punish those with the minority strategy.

• The results show that cooperation is greatly enhanced by punishing minority.

• Both of the first and the second phase transitions are found in our model.

摘要

•A new mechanism of punishment is proposed in the spatial public goods game.•Individuals with the majority strategy will punish those with the minority strategy.•The results show that cooperation is greatly enhanced by punishing minority.•Both of the first and the second phase transitions are found in our model.

论文关键词：Public goods game,Cooperation,Punishment,Majority

论文评审过程：Received 19 April 2017, Revised 4 August 2017, Accepted 26 August 2017, Available online 21 September 2017, Version of Record 21 September 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2017.08.049